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Ohio Shooting Leaves Nine Dead

James Alan Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who studies mass killings, said this weekend has been the deadliest in terms of mass shootings this year.
Fortune

Youth Employment Is Still Declining. How Summer Jobs Programs Can Help

Alicia Sasser Modestino is an associate professor in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University. 
Charlotte Business Journal

How Charlotte organizations use innovation centers to think differently

One way that companies can test and execute new ideas in today’s fast-paced business environment is to use innovation centers, says Raj Echambadi, Dunton Family Dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University, in this podcast. Beyond the goal of developing their own products or solutions, companies, including Lowe’s and EY, are focusing on […]
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US Records Nearly 20 Mass Killings For The Year So Far

A database compiled by The Associated Press, Northeastern University and USA Today shows that the number of mass killings has held steady in 2019 compared with past years. 
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‘Emotion detection’ AI is a $20 billion industry. New research says it can’t do what it claims.

“About 20 to 30 percent of the time, people make the expected facial expression,” such as smiling when happy, said Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, who worked on the report published earlier this month.
Science News

Tiny magnetic coils could help break down microplastic pollution

Chemical by-products of this microplastic decomposition, such as aldehydes and carboxylic acids, aren’t major environmental hazards, says Long Chen, an environmental engineer at Northeastern University in Boston not involved in the work.
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Tsarnaev’s lawyers to plead appeal of death penalty in December

Defendants typically aren’t present for their appellate hearings before the First Circuit, said Daniel S. Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and former associate appellate counsel at the Legal Aid Society Criminal Appeals Bureau in New York City.

What Are PFAS? And Are They Hazardous To Our Health?

Northeastern University professor of health sciences Phil Brown joined WBUR’s Morning Edition host Bob Oakes to explore just what danger the chemicals present.  
WGBH Boston Public Radio

Hallmarks of Innocence: Government Informants

WGBH’s Morning Edition Host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed about how the information government informants give can occasionally lead to wrongful convictions. 
NBC News

Forget props and fixed wings. New bio-inspired drones mimic birds, bats and bugs.

“There will be these machines that are round the clock doing monitoring and providing information,” says Alireza Ramezani, a Northeastern University roboticist who is working on a bat-inspired robot called Bat Bot.
U.S. News & World Report

Media Critic, 4 Journalists Are 2019 Yankee Quill Winners

The Academy of New England Journalists says this year’s honorees are Ross Connelly, Callie Crossley, Dan Kennedy, Angelo Lynn and John C. Peterson. Kennedy is a critic and journalism professor at Northeastern University. Lynn is the owner of Vermont’s Addison Press and publisher-editor of the Addison Independent. 
New York Magazine

What Does the History of Black Primary Voting Tell Us About 2020?

Thanks to the assistance of William Mayer, a political scientist at Northeastern University and an expert on presidential campaigns, NBC News has assembled for the first time a publicly available state-by-state record of the black vote for each of the nine competitive national Democratic campaigns since the inception of widespread exit polling.